Re: [boost] compile thread(boost1.55) fail on vc7.1

On 13/11/13 06:31, Tom Kent wrote:

On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 10:04 AM, Ion Gaztañaga wrote:

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So I understand that Visual 7.1 should be supported and the report it's a bug.

It is in the supported list, but if you look further down, there are no tests running against 7.1. I guess this means we'll accept bugs against it but make no claims to its being able to run out of the box?

Yeah, that sounds right. The list of minimum requirements don't really imply "supported" in the sense that all features of all libraries are expected to work. It means what it says, "Support was removed" for older versions, which, given their age and the reasons for bumping the requirements, means that they won't work. As you said, further down that page (the bottom), primary test compilers and additional test compilers are listed. It's hard to support compilers that are not running tests. Parties interesting in having support for a compiler should consider supporting a test runner for said compiler. On a side note, I don't think Rene meant to add my Clang-3.4 results to the list of primary test compilers as it's not released yet. I'm also testing with gcc-4.8.2 now, although that changed happened late in the release cycle (after the first beta if I recall). Ben